A team of researchers from the Information Sciences Institute at USC Viterbi has received a $16.7 million grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop an automated information translation and summarization tool to quickly translate obscure languages.
Principal investigator and ISI research team leader Scott Miller, ISI computer scientist Jonathan May, ISI research lead Elizabeth Boschee—with senior advisors Prem Natarajan, ISI's Michael Keston executive director and research professor of computer science, and Kevin Knight, ISI research director and Dean’s professor of computer science—are leading a team of about 30 researchers, including academics from the University of Massachusetts, Northeastern University, MIT, RPI, and the University of Notre Dame.
The ISI team’s project is called SARAL, which stands for Summarization and domain-Adaptive Retrieval (a Hindi word whose translations include “simple” and “ingenious”), and includes experts in machine translation, speech recognition, morphology, information retrieval, representation, and summarization.
“The overall objective is to provide a Google- like capability, except the queries are in English but the retrieved documents are in a low-resource foreign language,” says Miller, who is based at ISI’s newest office in Boston, MA.Read More
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11:00am - 12:00pm PDTA team of researchers from the Information Sciences Institute at USC Viterbi has received a $16.7 million grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop an automated information translation and summarization tool to quickly translate obscure languages.
Principal investigator and ISI research team leader Scott Miller, ISI computer scientist Jonathan May, ISI research lead Elizabeth Boschee—with senior advisors Prem Natarajan, ISI's Michael Keston executive director and research professor of computer science, and Kevin Knight, ISI research director and Dean’s professor of computer science—are leading a team of about 30 researchers, including academics from the University of Massachusetts, Northeastern University, MIT, RPI, and the University of Notre Dame.
The ISI team’s project is called SARAL, which stands for Summarization and domain-Adaptive Retrieval (a Hindi word whose translations include “simple” and “ingenious”), and includes experts in machine translation, speech recognition, morphology, information retrieval, representation, and summarization.
“The overall objective is to provide a Google- like capability, except the queries are in English but the retrieved documents are in a low-resource foreign language,” says Miller, who is based at ISI’s newest office in Boston, MA.Read More
